Together with Robert Pierre and Oscar Saint-Just, she led the coup against the Legislaturalist regime, and became a senior member of the newly installed Committee of Public Safety. She provided specially selected action teams from the Citizens' Rights Union to eliminate Internal Security chief Constance Palmer-Levy. Her official position was Secretary for Public Information, which gave her control of the People's Republic's media and extensive propaganda apparatus. (HH3)

Following her death, her faction was quietly purged. She was replaced as Secretary of Public Information by Leonard Boardman, who, while a skilled propagandist, utterly lacked her personal charisma and was entirely subordinate to Pierre and Saint-Just. (HH8)

Ransom was considered a very skillful propagandist, but the more level-headed Rob S. Pierre and Saint-Just noted that she had extremely radical opinions about politics and economics. As AdmiralThomas Theisman noted, she actually seemed to believe her own propaganda lies. Unlike Pierre and Saint-Just, she took personal satisfaction in destroying enemies, real or perceived, in the most thorough and terrifying manner possible.

In addition, she possessed an entirely irrational hatred and fear of the military; not the reasoned and entirely justified fear of Pierre and Saint-Just, who knew full well that the Committee had earned the military's hatred, but a deep, ideological loathing she displayed in her eagerness to crush even the slightest hint of independence. (HH7)